Quotes from the Dhammapada

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5/25/15

Chapter 19: The Just

A man is not a mendicant (Bhikshu) simply because he asks others for alms; he who adopts the whole law is a Bhikshu, not he who only begs.

He who is above good and evil, who is chaste, who with care passes through the world, he indeed is called a Bhikshu.

 

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6/1/15

Chapter 19: The Just

A man is not a Muni because he observes silence, if he is foolish and ignorant; but the wise who, as with the balance , chooses the good and avoids evil, he is a Muni, and is a Muni thereby; he who in this world weighs both sides is called Muni.

A man is not an elect (Ariya) because he injures living creatures; because he has pity on all living creatures, therefore is a man called Ariya.

 

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6/8/15

Chapter 19: The Just

Not only by discipline and vows, not only by much learning, not by entering into a trance, not by sleeping alone, do I earn the happiness of release which no worldling can know. O Bhikshu, he who has obtained the extinction of desires, has obtained confidence.

 

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6/15/15

Chapter 20: The Way

The best of ways is the eightfold; the best of truths the four words; the best of virtues passionlessness; the best of of men he who has eyes to see.

This is the way, there is no other that leads to purifying of intelligence. Go on this way! Everything else is the deceit of Mara, the tempter.

If you go on this way, you will make an end of pain! The way was preached by me, when i had understood the removal of the thorns of the flesh.

You yourself must make an effort. The Tathagatas (Buddhas) are only preachers.
The thoughtful who enter the way are freed from the bondage of Mara.

 

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6/22/15

Chapter 20: The Way

"All created things perish" he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way to purity.

"All created things are grief and pain," he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way that leads to purity.

"All forms are unreal," he who knows and sees this becomes passive in pain; this is the way that leads to purity.

 

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6/30/15

Chapter 20: The Way

He who does not rouse himself when it is time to rise, who, though young and strong, is full of sloth, whose will and thought are weak, that lazy and idle man will never find the way to knowledge.

Watching his speech, well restrained in mind, let a man never commit wrong with his body! Let a man but keep these three roads of action clear, and he will achieve the way which is taught by the wise.

 

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7/6/15

Chapter 20: The Way

Through zeal knowledge is gained, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

 

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7/13/15

Chapter 20: The Way

Cut down the whole forest of desires, not a tree only! Danger comes out of the forest of desires. When you have cut down both the forest of desires and its undergrowth, then, Bhikshus, you will be rid of the forest and of desires!

 

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7/21/15

Chapter 20: The Way

So long as the love of man toward a women, even the smallest, is not destroyed, so long is his mind in bondage, as the calf that drinks milk is to its mother.

Cut out the love of self, like an autumn lotus, with thy hand! Cherish the road of peace. Nirvana has been shown by Sugata (Buddha).

 

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7/27/15

Chapter 20: The Way



"Here I shall dwell in the rain, here in the winter and summer" thus the fool meditates, and does not think of his death.

Death comes and carries off that man, praised for his children and flocks, his mind distracted, as a flood carries off a sleeping village.

Sons are no help, nor a father, nor relations; there is no help from kinsfolk for one whom death has seized.

A wise and good man who knows the meaning of this, should quickly clear the way that leads to Nirvana.

 

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8/3/15

Chapter 21: Miscellaneous

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure,and look to the great.

He who, by causing pain to others, wishes to obtain pleasure for himself, he, entangled in the bonds of hatred, will never be free from hatred.

 

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8/10/15

Chapter 21: Miscellaneous

What ought to be done is neglected, what ought not to be done is done; the desires of unruly, thoughtless people are always increasing.

But they whose whole watchfulness is always directed at their body, who do not follow what ought not to be done, and who steadfastly do what ought to be done, the desires of such watchful and wise people will come to a end.

 

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8/17/15

Chapter 21: Miscellaneous

A true Brahmana goes scatheless, though he have killed father and mother, and two valiant kings, though he has destroyed a kingdom with all its subjects.

A true Brahmana goes scatheless, though he have killed father and mother, and two holy kings, and an eminent man besides.

 

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8/24/15

Chapter 21: Miscellaneous

The disciples of Gotama (Buddha) are always well awake, and their thoughts day and night are always set on Buddha.

The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their thoughts day and night are always set on the law.

The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their thoughts day and night are always set on the church.

The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their thoughts day and night are always set on their body.

 

[Uriah]

8/24/15

Chapter 21: Miscellaneous

The disciples of Gotama (Buddha) are always well awake, and their thoughts day and night are always set on Buddha.

The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their thoughts day and night are always set on the law.

The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their thoughts day and night are always set on the church.

The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their thoughts day and night are always set on their body.

I wonder if "law" is a translation of dhamma and "church" likewise a translation of sangha.

 

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I wonder if "law" is a translation of dhamma and "church" likewise a translation of sangha.

I believe you are correct.

9/8/15

Chapter 21: Miscellaneous

The disciples of Gotama are always well awake,and their mind day and night always delights in compassion.

The disciples of Gotama are always well awake, and their mind day and night always delights in meditation.

 

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9/14/15

Chapter 21: Miscellaneous

It is hard to leave the world to become a friar, it is hard to enjoy the world; hard is the monastery, painful are the houses; painful it is to dwell with equals to share everything in common and the itinerant mendicant is beset with pain. Therefore let no man be a itinerant mendicant and he will not be beset with pain.

A man full of faith, if endowed with virtue and glory, is respected, whatever place he may choose.

 

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9/21/15

Chapter 21: Miscellaneous

Good people shine from afar, like the snowy mountains; bad people are not seen, like arrows shot by night.

 

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9/29/15

Chapter 21: Miscellaneous

Sitting alone, lying down alone, walking without ceasing, and alone subduing himself, let a man be happy near the edge of a forest.

 

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10/7/15

Chapter 22: The Downward Course

He who says what is not, goes to hell; he also who, having done a thing , says i have not done it. After death both are equal, they are men with evil deeds in the next world.

Many men whose shoulders are covered with the yellow gown are ill-conditioned and unrestrained; such evildoers by their evil deeds go to hell.

Better it would be to swallow a heated iron ball, like flaming fire, than that a bad unrestrained fellow should live on the charity of the land.